[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That ‘clouts’ or patches; botching, bungling.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 415. A wonderfull clownishe conclusion, meete for such a clowting botcher.
1603. H. Crosse, Vertues Commw. (1878), 82. To heare how some such clouting beetles rowle in their loblogicke.
